Cloze Test (Noun)
Meaning
A test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The language teacher prepared a cloze test to assess the students' reading comprehension skills by deleting certain words from a passage.
- In the cloze test, students were given a paragraph with missing words and were asked to fill in the blanks based on the context.
- To diagnose the students' reading abilities, the teacher used a standardized cloze test that was validated by language experts.
- The researcher administered a cloze test to the participants to examine the effects of reading strategy training on their reading proficiency.
- The cloze test results revealed significant differences in the reading abilities of students who received different types of reading instructions.